Tourists to pay an extra $9 to leave Costa Rica

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09 de marzo 2003, 12:00 a. m.

San Jose, Mar 9 (EFE).- Foreign tourists leaving Costa Rica will have to pay $26 in exit taxes at the airport, up from the previous fee of $17, the Finance Ministry said.

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The measure is scheduled to take effect April 24, the ministry said Saturday, adding that 75 percent of the 1.1 million foreign tourists who visit Costa Rica each year use one of the nation's two airports.

The new tax law will also scrap the $30 exit fee levied on visitors who leave the country by land, a measure that will benefit the 250,000 Nicaraguans who reside in Costa Rica.

Until 2004, Costa Rican citizens will still have to pay $43 in exit taxes when they leave the country.

Finance Minister Jorge Walter Bolaños said the measure would generate close to $6.7 million in revenues and help cover the budget shortfall in 2003. EFE

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